April 09, 2021

Pwn2Own 2021: Zoom, Teams, Exchange, Chrome and Edge “fully owned”

Two lucky winners scooped $200k for just 20 minutes' work - if you don't count the days, weeks and months of meticulous effort beforehand

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March 05, 2020

Ethical hackers swarm Pentagon websites

Hackers are crawling all over the US Department of Defense's websites - and DoD officials are quite happy about the whole thing.

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September 05, 2019

Android gets September update as price of flaws soars

When is a security update not a security update? When it’s patching flaws in a version of an OS nobody beyond developers is yet running.

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September 02, 2019

Google throws bug bounty bucks at mega-popular third-party apps

If an app has more than 100 million installs, Google will pay for bugs, even if the app makers already have their own bounty programs.

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August 08, 2019

More than 2m AT&T phones illegally unlocked by bribed insiders

The alleged, now indicted ringleader paid more than $1m in bribes to insiders who planted malware and hardware for remote unlocking.

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June 26, 2019

VLC media player gets biggest security update ever

Maintainers of the world’s most popular open source media player, VLC, has issued the biggest single set of security fixes in the program’s history.

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March 05, 2019

Apple gets bug for free, while HackerOne declares first $1m bug hunter

An Argentinian has garnered $1m in bug bounties, while a German researcher has given up on getting any bounty at all from Apple.

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February 14, 2019

Google paid out $3.4m in bug bounties last year

317 researchers from 78 countries turned 2018 into a worldwide bug-crunching spree.

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January 09, 2019

Zerodium’s waving fatter payouts for zero-day bug hunters

Any chance we could appeal to your conscience and integrity and put in a call for ethical disclosure?

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